Quote Originally Posted by DD2014 View Post
You keep talking about some type of proof. If your proof is writen on a few scrolls by 12 people over 2000 years ago, you don't have a very good case. I can just as easily claim that the Hindu demon-lord Ravana's flying palace called Pushpaka is proven because some people wrote about it.

You can't claim the resurrection happened on such a low standard of proof. If you can come up with something better then that, (not an empty tomb) Then I will give the matter some consideration. But untill then they are just storys. Hehe! maybe in 2000 years someone will be praying to HarryPotter.
Writing about it is different than proving it. Giving eyewitness testimony of oneself as Paul did and saying he spent time with Peter, James and John who said the same in various group settings is the data we have before us in 1 Cor. 15., Gal. 1 & 2, which almost all skeptical scholars concede are Paul's genuine words and writing. And the Apostles were martyred for their faith, but people don't die for something they know is a lie. They, therefore, truly believed they had seen Jesus resurrected.

This is not a low standard of proof, for Jesus had 12 original Apostles. Along with this fact, we have a total of 12 different accounts in various group settings and a couple of individual accounts also. Why is 12 not good enough for you? Why do you need more? Maybe 50 and 100 is not good enough. Maybe 10,000,000 is not good enough. Why do you get to dictate the number? After all there were only 12 original Apostles who say Jesus resurrected by name in addition to the women, Paul, James, the brother of Jesus, and other unnamed witnesses. The Bible is not meant to list all the names, for then we would needlessly be carrying around a Bible larger in size than need be.

Paul even said there were 500 at one time and anyone can come to tell otherwise if this is not the case? The empty tomb is not a proof, but it agrees with the rest of the data. You would need reason to think they were just stories, for Paul really did set up all those churches in his writings and Luke's writings. There is not an air of anything being made up, so the burden is on you. Harry Potter never claimed to be God as Jesus did. Harry Potter was always a fictional character, but there is no history of ever Jesus being fictional as he spent 3 years in his ministry with the disciples who claimed they saw him resurrected.

Unless you can come up with a naturalistic explanation that fits the data, aren't you in a way admitting Jesus is God and you are going to Hell, because you refuse His loving sacrifice?